Event Description
Discovery Center Museum is joining over 11 other museums and science centers in Illinois and Indiana to continue its annual tradition of a New Year’s Eve countdown and celebration.
The children’s museums will host a free online Noon Year’s Eve Dance Party Countdown featuring The Awesome Squad, a children’s music group out of Decatur, IL who serve up kids’ favorite hits. Families will be invited to dance along to the songs before the official countdown to noon! Footage from all participating museums will be shared during this unique online event.
Noon Year’s Eve is a classic celebration for children’s museums across the country. Kids are often disappointed when adults stay up late to ring in the New Year, so this event is just for them. The free LIVE stream begins at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 31. Simply register for the free event at DiscoveryCenterMuseum.org and the museum will email guests the link. The event is sponsored locally by Swedi
Beth Whisman
The Children’s Discovery Museum will partner with more than 12 other museums and science centers in Illinois and Indiana to continue its annual tradition of providing local children with a Noon Year’s Eve countdown.
“This is a very new thing for us to collaborate on this scale. All children s museums have something special they do for the daytime for New Year’s. For at least 15 years now, we ve been doing Noon Year’s Eve,” said Beth Whisman, the Town of Normal’s executive director of cultural arts and the museum.
“It s usually just independent museums doing their own thing. What we found, with COVID, and being closed for almost 300 days, across at least the state of Illinois, there are just a lot of small museums that don t have the capacity for staff or revenue right now, to provide their families with our annual tradition.”
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